Today* we move out of our house in Virginia, and I say goodbye (for now) to James Madison University. I’ll be on leave for at least the next year while…
This is the sixth in a series of posts about getting started from scratch with 3D printing. Our posts so far have focused on the mechanics of printing a simple…
Today, one last print of Cute Octopus Says Hello. We used yesterday‘s “MyLow cheap 2-shell nFyR yRnS” slicing profile so the model would print as a shell with no base, and…
This is the fourth post in our series of getting started with 3D printing using the Replicator Mini. Last time we figured out how to print a hollow version of…
Yesterday we printed the Cute Octopus Says Hello model from Thingiverse as a first job for the MakerBot Replicator Mini. For that first print, we did everything the easy way; but…
This is the second in a series of posts about getting started with 3D printing, and the printer we’ll be using along this journey is the MakerBot Replicator Mini. If…
Today my 9-year-old assistant Calvin will be setting up a Replicator Mini. This is the start of a series of posts on how to get started with a 3D printer,…
This blog is officially on hiatus until after we finish moving to Brooklyn. Stay tuned for the end of next week when we’ll post the exciting news from this week…
We are at Day 300 in our year-long print-a-day project, thank goodness. In celebration, today’s print is a HUGE LEVEL 4 MENGER SPONGE, built out of 400 tiny Level 2…
Today we are finally at the end of the 15-knot series of knot conformations that we started on Day 266. This one is a tour-de-force, made by printing out separate…
